PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2000 ID-41463
.
UNITE I .
FIQHT II .
UBERATEIII.
AN AGENDA FOR ACTION.
add'!_,hobecawllldiac:'pllne the VC? 04.08.2000.
.
·-1, .
use..
i) That, we suggest, Ia the question the student community should gear Itself to:.~n Dayana~d, an ABVP activist, had sexually assaulted a girt student in Periyar hostel, it was a 12 hour long.
II) t n at the VC a office that had finally forced the VC to take action against the offender:did the VC expedite the construction of new hostels·.
Ul) only when students had repeatedly demonstrated at the ad-block asking for proper accommodation on campus.
the present VC is known to have been Involved i~ many cases of "land scams", when he reportedly sold off.
put had been subsequently dropped In a quid pro quo with the administration to save an ex-SFI leader, Com. .
hundreds of acres of JNU property for a song; (these cases which were highlighted by the JNUSU Itself In the.
Battilall);.
lv) the present VC had called in the Delhi Pollee on numerous occasions to crush legitimate, democratic and .
peaceful protest movements of the students: in the recent past {last year). he had had 63 student activists .
arrested and slapped false charges on student leaders:v) .
during the Mushaira incident, when the reputation and autonomy of the University came under attack due to a .
atanderous campaign by ASS sympathisers in the Press, the VC did not have the backbone expected from the.
administration did not lodge even an FIR against the drunken hoodlums from the Almy and instead gave a free head of an lnstiMe of teaming as, despite the testimony of many teachers{who were present at the spot), the.
ride to the hawks In the home ministry..
Instances could be multiplied and they will be If required, but the few cited above are enough, we suppose, to drive home the necessity of disciplining the VC. It Is not the students who need to be disciplined: rather, It Is the VC, .
aJong with all his henchmen In the administration who need to be disciplined. So that he does not tum an universityto scheming academicians (sic) for a song, so that he does not tum JNU into an exclusive club for rich, spoilt brats: so campus Into a medieval prison, so that he does not sell off assets built-up over the years with the tax-payers' money.
that sexual offences do not go unpunished, and for many other reasons bgslde..
And so we retum to the original question: who will discipline the VC? It is only the collective strength of the.
only a democratic consolidation of the whole campus community that can prevent the growing lawlessness of the .
students, karamcharis and teachers that can act as a counterweight to the growing authoritarianism of the VC. It is.
administration. And in this struggle to democratise life In the university It Is the tudent. who will hve to ply the .
dlng role, aJded no doubt by Its primary aJiy -the karamcharis -and its secondary ally -the teachers. The .
document enti:Jed "Rules of discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU"-an Intensely political document -is precisely an attempt by the administration to prevent such democratic consolidation of the students. Not only Shoi.Jid we reject it with the contempt that it deserves, we should also force the VC to nullity it In tomllty..
But here we encounter the question of strategy and tactics; how should we conduct our struggle, around what laauea and in what manner? We put the following suggestions before the student community for consideration and .
action:.
I)' .
.
a struggle to democratise JNU can only succeed if it Is conducted along democratic lines. This means, in concrete '\.
tenns, the fact that the leadership in the JNUSU must take the whole student body into confidence before launching any struggle; only an atmosphere in which ctlve participation of a lz ble Nt:tlon of the students Is ensured (and for this the SU has to devise imaginative methods) can a studenfs' struggle flourish. Taking all progressive student organisations into confidence and giving common students a say in crucll matters before.
prey to anti-den1ocratic tendencies. Our past experience with SFI-Ied student unions has been very negative in and during any struggle is essential if a movement against anti-democratic tendencies does not wish to Itself fallII) this regard and therefore we wish them to consider the above in all seriousness..
It 11 high time that we discard fighting rearguard battles, expending all our energy In trying to recapture lost .
ground. Allthe struggles launched In the past by the SFI·Iad unions have been of this nature, and In most cases .
we have not even managed to attain our original ground. We urge the SU to launch a fresh offensive around real .
Issues of student power, and thereby, as a positive spin-off, we can take care of this or that rule look in our stride..
a).
We suggest that the SU mobilise students to address the following concrete Issues: .
Students want to have a say in the way the university works: we want out representatives to have voting.
powerin the AC (the highest decision-making body In the university)..
b) .
us ask the administration to evolve a method whereby students can have a say about the allocation of funds Students want to know, In concrete detail, how much funds come into the university, how it is used etc. let.
In the university.c) The debate around the admission policy remains unfinished; the SU should take it up again, nowl.
d) withdrawn.e) All the cases pending In court with regard to the 63 student activists who had been detained be immediately.
The GSCASH must have complete autonomy not only with regard to Investigation. but also with regard to.
f) punishing culprits. The authority of the VC to Intervene In matters of the GSCASH should be nullified in toto. d...
atudent body, through Ita elected representatives. should have the power to enforce compliance of centres in The SU should be given the right to question all those centre that have not fulfilled the SCIST quota: the re.
1hle regard. .
to.
Th-are aome of the lssuea which Immediately come to mind; no doubt, there will be many others. The point In .
ds.
Q! .
saying all this Ia to reiterate the fact that politics Ia a form of war, and In war blind faith In defensive strategies may .
lead to lolsee; the best that it can achieve Is a return to status-quo ante. The SFI-Ied JNUSU should finally discard lhe mindut that always compels them to fight defensive battles. Now that the RULE BOOK is in our midst, in other J.!!WOida, the SU should not launch a "movemenr against it only (anyway, the fact that they had signed a document .
which had proclaimed gheraoa, sit-Ins etc. as Illegal would expose their Intention of fighting back the present ,........):the SU should launch an offensive on the real issues affecting students. and than we can take care of all .
r.o..
IUCh rule books In the course of the struggle. .
DEMOCRATIC STUDENTS UNION (DSU) .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2000 ID-41463
.
UNITE I .
FIQHT II .
UBERATEIII.
AN AGENDA FOR ACTION.
add'!_,hobecawllldiac:'pllne the VC? 04.08.2000.
.
·-1, .
use..
i) That, we suggest, Ia the question the student community should gear Itself to:.~n Dayana~d, an ABVP activist, had sexually assaulted a girt student in Periyar hostel, it was a 12 hour long.
II) t n at the VC a office that had finally forced the VC to take action against the offender:did the VC expedite the construction of new hostels·.
Ul) only when students had repeatedly demonstrated at the ad-block asking for proper accommodation on campus.
the present VC is known to have been Involved i~ many cases of "land scams", when he reportedly sold off.
put had been subsequently dropped In a quid pro quo with the administration to save an ex-SFI leader, Com. .
hundreds of acres of JNU property for a song; (these cases which were highlighted by the JNUSU Itself In the.
Battilall);.
lv) the present VC had called in the Delhi Pollee on numerous occasions to crush legitimate, democratic and .
peaceful protest movements of the students: in the recent past {last year). he had had 63 student activists .
arrested and slapped false charges on student leaders:v) .
during the Mushaira incident, when the reputation and autonomy of the University came under attack due to a .
atanderous campaign by ASS sympathisers in the Press, the VC did not have the backbone expected from the.
administration did not lodge even an FIR against the drunken hoodlums from the Almy and instead gave a free head of an lnstiMe of teaming as, despite the testimony of many teachers{who were present at the spot), the.
ride to the hawks In the home ministry..
Instances could be multiplied and they will be If required, but the few cited above are enough, we suppose, to drive home the necessity of disciplining the VC. It Is not the students who need to be disciplined: rather, It Is the VC, .
aJong with all his henchmen In the administration who need to be disciplined. So that he does not tum an universityto scheming academicians (sic) for a song, so that he does not tum JNU into an exclusive club for rich, spoilt brats: so campus Into a medieval prison, so that he does not sell off assets built-up over the years with the tax-payers' money.
that sexual offences do not go unpunished, and for many other reasons bgslde..
And so we retum to the original question: who will discipline the VC? It is only the collective strength of the.
only a democratic consolidation of the whole campus community that can prevent the growing lawlessness of the .
students, karamcharis and teachers that can act as a counterweight to the growing authoritarianism of the VC. It is.
administration. And in this struggle to democratise life In the university It Is the tudent. who will hve to ply the .
dlng role, aJded no doubt by Its primary aJiy -the karamcharis -and its secondary ally -the teachers. The .
document enti:Jed "Rules of discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU"-an Intensely political document -is precisely an attempt by the administration to prevent such democratic consolidation of the students. Not only Shoi.Jid we reject it with the contempt that it deserves, we should also force the VC to nullity it In tomllty..
But here we encounter the question of strategy and tactics; how should we conduct our struggle, around what laauea and in what manner? We put the following suggestions before the student community for consideration and .
action:.
I)' .
.
a struggle to democratise JNU can only succeed if it Is conducted along democratic lines. This means, in concrete '\.
tenns, the fact that the leadership in the JNUSU must take the whole student body into confidence before launching any struggle; only an atmosphere in which ctlve participation of a lz ble Nt:tlon of the students Is ensured (and for this the SU has to devise imaginative methods) can a studenfs' struggle flourish. Taking all progressive student organisations into confidence and giving common students a say in crucll matters before.
prey to anti-den1ocratic tendencies. Our past experience with SFI-Ied student unions has been very negative in and during any struggle is essential if a movement against anti-democratic tendencies does not wish to Itself fallII) this regard and therefore we wish them to consider the above in all seriousness..
It 11 high time that we discard fighting rearguard battles, expending all our energy In trying to recapture lost .
ground. Allthe struggles launched In the past by the SFI·Iad unions have been of this nature, and In most cases .
we have not even managed to attain our original ground. We urge the SU to launch a fresh offensive around real .
Issues of student power, and thereby, as a positive spin-off, we can take care of this or that rule look in our stride..
a).
We suggest that the SU mobilise students to address the following concrete Issues: .
Students want to have a say in the way the university works: we want out representatives to have voting.
powerin the AC (the highest decision-making body In the university)..
b) .
us ask the administration to evolve a method whereby students can have a say about the allocation of funds Students want to know, In concrete detail, how much funds come into the university, how it is used etc. let.
In the university.c) The debate around the admission policy remains unfinished; the SU should take it up again, nowl.
d) withdrawn.e) All the cases pending In court with regard to the 63 student activists who had been detained be immediately.
The GSCASH must have complete autonomy not only with regard to Investigation. but also with regard to.
f) punishing culprits. The authority of the VC to Intervene In matters of the GSCASH should be nullified in toto. d...
atudent body, through Ita elected representatives. should have the power to enforce compliance of centres in The SU should be given the right to question all those centre that have not fulfilled the SCIST quota: the re.
1hle regard. .
to.
Th-are aome of the lssuea which Immediately come to mind; no doubt, there will be many others. The point In .
ds.
Q! .
saying all this Ia to reiterate the fact that politics Ia a form of war, and In war blind faith In defensive strategies may .
lead to lolsee; the best that it can achieve Is a return to status-quo ante. The SFI-Ied JNUSU should finally discard lhe mindut that always compels them to fight defensive battles. Now that the RULE BOOK is in our midst, in other J.!!WOida, the SU should not launch a "movemenr against it only (anyway, the fact that they had signed a document .
which had proclaimed gheraoa, sit-Ins etc. as Illegal would expose their Intention of fighting back the present ,........):the SU should launch an offensive on the real issues affecting students. and than we can take care of all .
r.o..
IUCh rule books In the course of the struggle. .
DEMOCRATIC STUDENTS UNION (DSU) .
.